The trailer for Christopher Guest’s latest film/mockumentary (.mov) features the usual comedic players from Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind—plus Ricky Gervais!

Slate’s reader’s guide to Bob Woodward’s State of Denial.

Steven Johnson writes in New York Times Magazine about Will Wright’s ambitious new, “massively-single-player ‘god game’ Spore, including references to Charles and Ray Eames’s classic film “Powers of Ten” (video), Brian Eno’s generative art and music and The Long Now Foundation.

How an in-house campaign became a global icon:

When Harvey Ball took a black felt-tip pen to a piece of yellow paper in 1963, he never could have realized that he was drafting the face that would launch 50 million buttons and an eventual war over copyright.

For the past week, I’ve been reading feeds using Newsfire, the Mac RSS reader ‘with style’ created by David Watanabe (of Acquisition P2P fame and the currently-in-beta Xtorrent). In the past, I had used Ranchero’s NetNewsWire and the website Kinja to aggregate feeds, but they lack the simplicity I wanted. I was able to import an OPML file of my favorites and just get going. I’ve found some indexing sites don’t translate well to feed-reading, but it beats having to visit most of the sites I track every day. My only complaint is with sites which hide the link to their feed, split things out into innumerable sub-feeds or exclude images and have only terse excerpts.